Aftershave!

[Maz]

Woman makes me wear Hugo Boss...

I got given some as a present...only mine was called Hogo Boos. Dodgy or what.

 

[wormo]

I got some aftershave testers from Mankind (on internet) in nice presentation box and then could order the one I liked all as part of same gift. They weren't your satndard aftershaves but all very nice. If you prefer musky smell you pick six types of this or maybe 6 similar ones to CK1

 

[Globalti]

The word perfume comes from the Latin per fumare, which means "through smoke" because incense smoke is used throughout the Middle East to purify and ward off evil spirits. In the Gulf people even smoke their clothes on special frames before wearing them and in countries like Sudan it's very common to walk into a building and find a haze of incense. The tradition still exists in churches here. Modern perfumes evolved in Grasse when glove makers began anointing the leather with waxy concretes made from extracts of animals like civet and castoreum and certain flowers so as to cover bad smells before the advent of modern sanitation and hygiene.

Civet is an interesting material - it is harvested in Ethiopia from the scent-marking anal glands of civet cats, which are kept in wooden cages. When the cat has built up a good dose of juice the most unpopular bloke in the village gets the job of prodding it with a stick to enrage it so that it sprays; he has to collect the stuff in a bowl and it is then concentrated down for use in perfume as a fixative. Somebody on here mentioned Kouros, which has a heavy animalic note of synthetic civet.

 

[Globalti]

An anthropologist, eh? I don't think prehistoric Man would have used an odour to camouflage himself. The earliest users were probably the ancient Greeks or Romans who used perfumed oils to obscure body odour. For people like us whose olfactory organs are under constant assault by aroma molecules it's difficult to apprecite just how remarkable an artificial odour would smell to somebody whose odour experience was restricted to environment and human and animal odours; anything like a flower scent would have knocked them for six. I have some experience of this; after skiing the Haute Route from Chamonix we came down from a frozen sterile mountain environment of ice and rock into the warm Zermatt valley where the smells of the small farms and then the village began to reach our noses, which were cleansed after a week of no odour apart from our own. The effect was mind-blowing, we suddenly understood why the top perfumers have their laboratories half way up an Alp for the purity of the air.

My company sells many tons a year of an extremely pungent perfume, which is used in west Africa in cheap crude airfresheners. That's a heck of a lot of tons a year of airfreshener, whch is used mainly by rural people who have almost no experience at all of perfumed household cleaning products. The perfume stinks, it's disgusting but in their fetid tropical environment to their unpracticed noses it smells fantastic.

 

[mrandmrspoves]

OK its that time of year again when we're all thinking, "maybe I should start doing some christmas shopping". Well I am .
Him in doors has just said don't buy me anymore cycle shirts or clothing in general so I'm stuck on what to buy him. I always try to buy him something he doesn't expect and as he doesn't wear aftershave I thought I might treat him to some.
He says he doesn't like wearing it yet he always comments on his mates when he's been on a lads night out.
So begs the question; What would you recommend boys?

I like Cerruti 1881 Eau De Toilette .... it must be good because when I wear it, despite the fact that I am balding, fat and ugly, the women I work with say they could ALMOST fancy me (with their eyes shut and padded gloves on)

My wife likes the ladies version too (as do I - when she wears it)

 

[Silver Fox]

Issey Miyake, L'eau Bleue is my fave.

"L'Eau Bleue d'Issey pour Homme is a mysterious fragrance with aromatic notes of lemon grass and rosemary enveloped by the warmth of the sandalwood"

Ok, whatever, I just think it smells nice.

 

[Archie_tect]

I wondered what Master A_T has been rolling in recently...

 

[Rezillo]

Aftershave - each bottle given to me is tried once, at which point I think, "yes, smells nice, I might well use that again" as I put the bottle back in the drawer.

Nothing further happens to the bottle for two years, at which point it is discovered in stasis under some Homer Simpson socks. It is then thrown away.

 

[GordonB]

Aftershave - each bottle given to me is tried once, at which point I think, "yes, smells nice, I might well use that again" as I put the bottle back in the drawer.

Nothing further happens to the bottle for two years, at which point it is discovered in stasis under some Homer Simpson socks. It is then thrown away.

Next time, throw it a bit further, like a few miles down the road, you'll be glad you did bearing in mind how much time you spend downwind of me and my "interesting" diet. ;-)

Gordon

 

[Rezillo]

.......bearing in mind how much time you spend downwind of me.......

Yes, we get some strong tail winds in Suffolk......